Items Tagged with 'FAA'

On March 9, NPR reported Boeing was unable to find any paperwork about the door plug and attributed a top Boeing official saying, “It was likely that such records never existed.” Roughly one day later, the Wall Street Journal reported the Justice Department had opened a criminal investigation.

"For years, I've been told, 'The safest part of your journey has come to an end.' Initially, I took this to mean just getting home from the airport, but now I question, 'Was I ever truly safe to begin with?'"

It is the government agency’s response to the door plug incident on Alaskan Airline flight on Jan. 5.

The investigation is under way to explain a “plug” door that blew out shortly after takeoff of a Boeing 737 Max 9 in Oregon on Friday.